Cristo Rey New York High School is a college preparatory Catholic high school located in East Harlem, in New York, New York. Students spend one day out of the week interning with multinational corporations such as Pfizer, American Express, JP Morgan, and McKinsey. The school's founder and principal is Bill Ford, whose aunt is the martyr Ita Ford.
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